Results 9,081-9,100 of 9,393 for speaker:Alex White
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: Every time I mention another measure, I get heckled-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----because the Deputies opposite know that these are practical, serious solutions to a problem that they just want to talk about.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: I cannot promise to bring the proposals of any party to Cabinet.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: What I will promise to do, and in the spirit of all of us working together as a Dáil, is that I will certainly look at the proposals. We should all look at each other's proposals in particular in the context of the coming months-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----in terms of how we address these issues.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: The Deputy will be aware that the Government has agreed to bring forward legislation on the bankruptcy period.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: That will be done.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: I congratulate my colleague, Deputy Penrose, on having brought forward the Bill. It is a genuine piece of legislation that will address the position faced by too many people, as a consequence of the economic crash we had to deal with in this country in recent years. I admit that I have not seen the proposals that are contained in the Deputy's document. I am sorry about that but I will read...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: As we face into the closing weeks and months of this Dáil, it is necessary to recognise the achievement of the Government-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----and the achievement of what has happened in this country. We had the greatest economic crash we had ever seen, and a banking collapse on a scale that has never been seen anywhere in the world. The resulting consequences of that in terms of the living standards of so many people, in particular their opportunity to buy and own a home, have been enormous. The Government's efforts since...
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: If there are measures we could have taken a year before we took them-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----or six months before we took them, we can have that debate but nobody can gainsay the fact that this Government-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----with Deputy Mathews's support for a little while until he went in another direction, brought together-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----not just the economy-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----but the public finances to ensure that we now have an economy that can look to the future and a society that can benefit from a stable economic environment. That is what we now have for the first time in seven or eight years after the worst economic crash we have ever seen in this country. In so far as the Deputy is advancing his own party proposals on Leaders' Questions-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----people will have to recognise that the two Government parties, Fine Gael and the Labour Party, have done an enormous amount to turn this country around.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: It is completely untrue to say the Government has taken a hands-off approach to this problem. That is manifestly not true.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: The Deputy can disagree with some of the measures-----
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: -----and he can say the Government should perhaps have gone further or that he disagrees with some of the approaches that were taken but it is ludicrous to suggest that we have taken a hands-off approach.
- Leaders' Questions (3 Dec 2015)
Alex White: The entire effort of this Government in the past five years has been to stabilise the economy after the shocking economic collapse that occurred, including, in cases where people have had to cope with the impact of mortgage arrears, including insolvency legislation which we introduced and brought through the House, and also the provision of services such as the Money Advice and Budgeting...